Muslim Radical-Turned-Christian Shares How God Saved Him From Jihad

Jay says it’s a “miracle” that he came to faith in Christ. Having grown up in a well-to-do fundamental Muslim family in Afghanistan and at one point in his life even thinking about joining a terrorist group, he could have never imagined the way that he’d be rescued from the suicidal depression he faced after he abandoned Islam. Jay (not his real name) told The Christian Post in a phone interview last week

that there was a point in his life that he would inwardly glorify deadly terrorist attacks in the name of Islam as they happened around the world and even considered doing his own “jihad” after being indoctrinated online. The 30-year-old who came to the U.K. in 2001 as a 15-year-old asylum-seeker fleeing the Taliban and United States retaliation to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, explained that he grew up to become the very thing that he told the U.K. government that he escaped from. READ MORE